Senior Manager, Data Center Reliability Engineering - Michigan

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability engineering and analytics teams supporting multiple sites, regions, or infrastructure programs across mission-critical facilities environments.
• Define and standardize reliability engineering methods, including FMEA, RCA, RCM, critical assessment, defect elimination, and continuous improvement practices.
• Establish reliability programs for electrical, mechanical, and controls systems that improve asset health, reduce repeat failures, and strengthen operational resilience.
• Oversee deployment and effective use of monitoring, alarming, analytics, and automation tools that support predictive maintenance, asset performance visibility, and reliability decision-making.
• Define, track, and report portfolio reliability of KPIs, trends, risks, and corrective action status to executive leadership and global operations stakeholders.
• Ensure corrective actions from incidents, failure analyses, audits, and trend reviews are implemented, verified for effectiveness, and sustained over time.
• Partner with site operations teams to improve maintenance programs, troubleshooting rigor, failure response, operational readiness, and procedure quality.
• Guide reliability input into commissioning, acceptance testing, operational handover, major maintenance, retrofits, and equipment lifecycle planning.
• Drive structured analysis of asset utilization, failure history, equipment health, remaining useful life, spare parts strategy, and end-of-life risk.
• Partner with design, construction, and procurement teams to improve reliability, maintainability, standardization, and total cost of ownership in new and existing infrastructure.
• Develop engineers and analysts through coaching, technical review, prioritization discipline, and data-driven problem solving.
• Build strong operating rhythms across the team, ensuring priorities, escalation paths, portfolio visibility, and follow-through are clear and consistent.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of experience in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering, critical facilities, manufacturing, utilities, industrial operations, or other uptime-critical environments; data center experience preferred, but adjacent industry experience is highly relevant.
• 2–4+ years of experience leading engineers, analysts, or technical programs across multiple sites, business units, or complex infrastructure environments.
• Strong background in reliability frameworks, structured root cause analysis, maintenance strategy, asset lifecycle planning, and operational risk reduction.
• Experience working cross-functionally with operations, design, construction, commissioning, and vendor partners.

Skills And Competencies

• Strong technical leadership and ability to influence engineering, operations, and business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical judgment and ability to translate reliability data into practical decisions, priorities, and executive-level recommendations.
• Deep familiarity with RCA rigor, FMEA/FMECA, reliability metrics, maintenance optimization, and continuous improvement methods.
• Ability to connect site-level issues to portfolio-wide patterns, risks, and opportunities.
• Clear communicator who can explain technical tradeoffs, operational risk, and recommended actions to mixed audiences.
• Strong organizational discipline, follow-through, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.